Those didn’t go over very well. So, the Sierra Club and the McKibbenites muse to themselves; what to do? Why “kittens” of course. We”ll borrow from the old National Lampoon Magazine cover and say “do this or the kitten gets it!”. Yeah, that’s the ticket!

Now it’s “March or the Kitten Gets It!” as a way to promote the “March for Climate” in New York City on September 21st. I can just see weepy Bill McKibben breaking down again like some crazy cat lady for dramatic effect. If that had been an actual wind turbine at the end, that cat would be history…just like so many birds. Watch the video:

The video, posted three days ago according to comments on YouTube, so far has about 228 views as of this writing. I’d say they’ll likely get more views from WUWT readers than they ever will from people who might be convinced to march the streets due to some cat video.

We”ll borrow from the old National Lampoon Magazine cover and say “do this or the kitten gets it!”. Yeah, that’s the ticket!

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I remember a National Lampoon page (I don’t think it was the cover.) that had a Horace Greeley quote that went something like, “Show me a magazine that has a pretty woman, a baby or a pet on the cover and I’ll show you a magazine that will sell!”
Of course the picture was of a pretty mom serving the family pet (with an apple in it’s mouth) to her baby.
Maybe the dog was cooked in a solar oven?

I would like to understand the campaign. Since some “climate change believers” come by every so often, here is my question to them: These organizations have assets well into the tens of millions, some into the hundreds of millions, what am I to make of their use of these resources? Please use this kitten video as context in your reply. In case there is any doubt, the question and interest are both honest.

If I were in business, I’d want to know who were the idiots at the add agency that came up with this drivel so I could avoid them like the plague. If they came up with it themselves, then “Someone who is their own lawyer has a fool for a client” should also apply to someone who does their own PR promotions.

Well, one does have to give credit where credit is due. They had the good sense to use a Tuxedo Cat, in the second scene, driving the car. Everyone knows tuxedo cats can do almost anything. On the other hand, I know that if there really was a problem my cat, an elderly tuxedo cat, would have told me by now so I know there is no problem with man-released CO2.

Note: there is an hypothesis that all radical libertarians are cat lovers. We need funding to get to the bottom of this crucial issue!

I don’t get it. First they say “march or the kitten gets it”, then it’s “stop climate change or the kitten gets it”.
Either way, “gets it” is slang for gets offed. In other words, if you don’t do what they say, they will kill the kitten.
Nice.

Nope, you got it. That’s the “joke”. You have to remember the group we’re talking about here. You know: the types who visually bristle at any joke that doesn’t conform to the boundaries of political correctness. These are their knee-slappers.

Lord help all those who have been or ever will be stuck at a dinner party along side these “jokesters”.

Perhaps polar bears got ditched for kittens in forest fires for a reason. Arctic ice is increasing (Northwest Passage still impassible this year as of this date), and the Inuit (Nunavut areal survey) and Dr. Susan Crawford were right about polar bears thriving. IPCC and USGS ‘Oops’.

What else is an increasingly desperate Warmunist to do? Not a rhetorical question, since I have a list and think starting a fantasy league on CAGW would be most amusing. Already called ocean acidification despite the pause (see amusing previous today thread for indirect verification).

One problem. According to OBummer’s 2014 NCR, increasing floods are happening. (Not, deconstructed in a forthcoming book essay.) So the cute kittens should be drowning, not roasting. Or, this ad plays in Steyer’s California, and the drowning ad will soon play in New York post Katrina. That is how all sophisticated operations now target their advertising. A humble advert prediction.

Good god. They include windmills in all their ads. I’d like to see their investment portfolio and see how much they are vested into those airboats. (great big holes in the air into which one pours money; mostly other people’s money too)

Seriously, don’t they realise that most people associate internet cat videos with stupid jokes and memes? The humorous connotations of “cat video” are so strong that the format itself totally undermines any attempt to deliver a serious message.

We need a “march and the kitten gets it”. Promise to contribute to an animal shelter local to where the march is planned, UNLESS the march actually happens. An animal shelter that euthanizes kittens.
Maybe we can reuse some of the footage from one of those ads I only vaguely remember as they are on at 2am.

Lord help all those who have been or ever will be stuck at a dinner party along side these “jokesters”.
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don’t remind me. I usually ask if they would like to move outside to enjoy the pleasantly warm evening.

which is neither warm nor comfortable in Vancouver much past sunset on the warmest day of the year without a patio heater, gloves, parka, toque, and mukluks.

For extra chuckles, I just emailed the Sierra Club and offered to sell them the rights to my GNKSHF video. I neglected to mention it’s a spoof because I could use the money, and I don’t think they could tell the difference (to be honest, several WUWT commenters thought it was a real — demented — lefty product).

Bruce wrote: “These organizations have assets well into the tens of millions, some into the hundreds of millions, what am I to make of their use of these resources?”

It is a good question. I think it is very significant that the preferred use is to make ads which are basically “Repent, the End is Near” sign boards.

Pious moral posturing is right at the center of the hair-shirt environmentalist movement: “My intentions are better than yours because I at least care about the earth. If you disagree you are a selfish, hard-hearted, greedy American. Therefore you should be on the moral defensive while my ideas, and I, take precedence.”

If one understands that self-important praying in public IS the point, then spending all their money on these ads makes perfect sense.

The 24-page pamphlet has a number of testimonials on various topics, with the following goal:

““In developing this visitor guide, we’re providing our rangers with a much-needed tool for raising awareness about this critical issue. It’s likely to be a topic of conversation in the parks for many years to come,” said John Morris, one of the project leaders from University of Alaska Fairbanks who helped develop it.

Wonder of wonders, however, there is no mention of polar bears – even though several National Parks in Alaska are in polar bear territory (Chukchi Sea and/or Southern Beaufort).

Can you imagine any other scientific question of empirical fact where the proponents of one side feel compelled to resort to cute images and propaganda to convince the public of their case? “What will happen to the little lemurs in SE Asia if the continents keep moving as Alfred Wegener proposes?” “You must defeat the theory of quantum mechanics. Look what happened to Schroedinger’s Cat!”

The inanity of the Warmist believers knows no bounds, and clearly has nothing to do with science.

Do these duffers even know just how environmentally destructive little pussy cats are ??

Now from my mouth, to your ears; I am one maxi cat lover. Don’t have any right now; no place to let them run around. Last one I had, ate everything that came in our yard, gophers, moles, snakes, mice, even ate a whole jack rabbit, as big as the cat, except for just the hind legs. They evidently taste just like chicken.

But cats, are hell on wheels, when it comes to wild life. Mine ate my tame Blue Jay, that I had rescued from it, when it was just a dumb kitten.

So let’s here it for these wild feral varmints, that are decimating the bird populations in cities..

Well we could use a good bit of raining cats and dogs in California, right now; beats the shakeys any time.

Likely to confuse the greenies here in Australia where feral cats are considered a significant threat to native mammals and birds. They hate cats. I once saw a graph presented at a national meeting showing the effects of culling introduced predators on a cute little native marsupial and the histogram bars were formed from stacks of dead cats. The audience applauded.

Join me in celebrating Skeptic Weekend, but begin on Friday, Sept. 19th – the march is on Sunday. Anyone that grills anything, drinks any carbonated beverage, burps, or passes gas, or uses electricity on Fri/Sat/Sun can be a part. Usually there are harvest celebrations but the Harvest Moon is on the 9th and the Equinox is the week after the march.
We should know by then what the Arctic sea ice came to. Maybe that calls for a celebration.

Cuckoo’s would be the perfect mascot. They are opportunists, reproduce using the all the facilities of someone elses efforts. Killing the next generation of their hosts, to support their next generation.

As the servant to 10 cats (dogs have masters, cats have servants), I can state with authority that cats have a present for McKibben and his ilk. Personalized tootsie rolls. My oldest even made one in the shape of Mann.

OK, here’s the plan. For the Sept. 21st march we each go to a NYC animal shelter and buy all their cats and kittens. We then attend the march and release all the cats there. Mayhem and merriment ensue.

The kitten thing doesn’t pull hard enough at the heartstrings of the general population, now a cute puppy getting toasted might have gotten them more hits. People love puppies, kittens only make them think of cleaning litter boxes.

This suggests that climate change propaganda has entered a new phase. It involves test markets of stage props for the message management. Next to come will be gender specific and ethnic variations of the props and talking points. Don’t forget the kids segment.

Next they’ll rub two cats together, harness the static and sell the electricity to dumb countries for exorbitant fees… Oh wait they already do that, well at least they rub the cats, sheep and anything else that gives them jollies.

these pseudo environmental groups failed to support any solutions, but collected a lot of money, ensuring that Fossil Fuel power plants remained ant the POLAR BEAR was a lost cause.
Continued use of the Polar Bear would cause some people to wake up to the Charade, so now its a cat.

Oh boy! When are they going to release the videos of the SPCA blowing up kittens for not being excited about climate change.
How many kittens do they have to drop out of an airplane to equal one polar bear?

I was anticipating that they would have the kitten explode like 350’s prior “no pressure” ad of people exploding who didn’t agree with their thuggery. Apparently they have more regard for kittens than people.